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Can't wait for this to happen to my CRA account after the government of Canada optimizes it for our brave new AI world.
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Jen Raso
Assistant Prof at McGill's Faculty of Law | McCAIS leadership team | Researching digital government, AI systems, and other socio-legal-technical things | www.jenraso.com
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
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Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection arxiv.org
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Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas desmog.com
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Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires thebeaverton.com
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Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub btah.org
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Canada’s AI strategy includes no new protections for water or climate nationalobserver.com
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Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up — by Immigration’s AI reviewer thestar.com
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Thanks! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740
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Florida's attorney general filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chairman Sam Altman, alleging that the AI startup’s ChatGPT is unsafe. It contends that ChatGPT has provided assistance for mass shootings, and poses addiction and suicide risks to users.
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“If a person came up to me, and they were clearly in distress and sharing their thoughts of suicide, I would be expected to help them, not encourage them to fixate on their depressive thoughts or isolate themselves.” Another terrible story of ChatGPT encouraging suicidal thoug…
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Nice to speak to @geoffdembicki.bsky.social @desmog.com about leaked documents revealing the capacity of planned fossil plants for Canadian data centres + my estimate that if they became operational, they'd cause enough emissions to wipe out 15 years of progress www.desmog.com…
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Carney assures Canadians that AI the fastest way to give all our money to US billionaires
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Emma Weil from @upturn.org plugs their Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub — if you're a technologist who wants to do good, go sign up to help! www.btah.org #FAccT2026
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misinterpretation of laws a recurring tactic of Big AI read our paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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"A federal judge signaled that she will likely order Workday, the maker of popular AI-powered human resources software, to face claims that it violated California law thousands of times by weeding out job applicants at many major companies for discriminatory reasons" www.reute…
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NEW from @natashabulowski.bsky.social and myself www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...
A pressing issue tackled in my Regulating AI course @mcgill.ca -- massive data centre proposed for Olds, AB. A critical issue we discussed was a total lack of concern for the duty to consult. This is treaty 6, 7 and 8 territory, but you wouldn't know it from this report. www.c…
If genAI is in the mix, it may be one of many layers within decision production. In some cases, gov officials may leave a civil servant as a final "decision-maker" but that human might do little more than rubber stamp genAI-produced text. See for eg www.thestar.com/news/canada…
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